Culture
and cultures
In
the singular, 'the' culture is identified with the universal matrix
of specific human. This constituent culture is interactively
constituent humanity. Concretely however it appears only through the
plural of the differences of spaces and times, in an infinity of made
up cultures. On the background of universal constituent culture, each
particular culture is constituted in the difference as an original
creation. Although the cultures are multiple and different, each of
them opens the human reality on the cultural universality.
Each
particular culture,
located
in a geographical place and spreading through a historical duration,
can thus be concretely understood as a cultural
space.
The culture is experienced concretely like a 'environment'. You have
to live in it before you can come clear with it. You feel at home in
it before understanding it completely. Each human being finds here
his maternal womb. It is also his paternal house out of which he
feels somewhat a foreigner although he becomes really conscient of it only
in the distance.
Each
particular culture functions inside a cultural field. Each personal
culture functions in the cultural field of an area at a given
historic moment. This one functions in a wider cultural field and
from wide to wider until the including whole of the totality of
humanity. They are not closed but open systems. These various
cultural systems, until in their broadest systemic totality, are at
the same time producers and consumers of sense.
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